Automatic sulfur-burner.



PORTER( vlAUTUMATIC SULFUR BURNER. APPLICATION FILED Muze, 1912.

Patented Nov. 12, 1912.

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` Y Gwcgmffzf UWE/WOR CIT -UNiTnn seitens- GERGE .FORTIER, OE GRAND FALLS, NEWFOUNDLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-.HALF T0 E. B. BERWCK, OF GRAND FALLS, NEWFOUNDLAND.

AUTOMATIC SULFUR-BURNER..

'Specification of Letters Patent. y Patented NOV. 12, 1912 Application filed Mey 22, 1912. Serial No. 698,972.

To all 'whom it may concern:

' Be itknown that l, Geenen W. Fourmiz, a subject of the King of England, residing at Grand Falls, in the Colony of Newfoundland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Sulfur-Burners; and I do hereby declare the following and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically defined in the appended claim, y

ll illustrate my invention in the accom-I panying drawings, in which Figure l is a central vertical'sectional view through my improvcd sulfur burner. Fig, Eis a front view, and Fig. 3 is an end View.

Reference now being had to thedetails'of the drawings' by letter, A designates the casing or-closiire of the apparatus which may be made of ie briclt, steel or other material, and which is provided with a compartment B 'with an opening C therein haring a lun nel-shaped mouth D and through which opening the sulfur is adapted to be placed Within the compartment B. Steam pipes E are positioned wit-hin saidcon'ipartment, torming means whereby heat may beapplied to the latter, and F designates a. perforated partition dividing the compartment -B from the compartment G, which latter has an opening G in its bottom, the walls of which opening are tapered, and H desig nates a conical shaped valve designed to regulate the opening G. A stem H to said' valve, extends through the bearing l formed in the top of the casing, and a hand wheel l is fitted to said stem and forms means whereby the valve may be opened or closed.

- Underneath the compartment B is a chamher li; having a series of shelves N bolted or Iotherwise fastened to the wall of the casing, and. having their exit ends alternately disposed, as shown, in order to form an elongated passageway for the travel ot the gas and fumes which take the course indicated by dotted lines. Openings, desiefnatedbv letters O and O, are formed in the end wall of the casing and each of which is closed by a sliding door O2, the former of which openings U forms means of access to the bottoni of the casing whereby refuse may be'withdrawn therefrom while the opening O is lslightly above the end of the lower partition and affords means whereby dry sulfur may be placed upon the shelf for starting the lire. A similar opening Q is positioned in one end ot the casing, above the upper .shelf and regulated by a sliding door Q', and at the opposite end is an opening Q2 of a door Q4 opening opposite the free end of the upper shelf. I

lin the upper pur-tion of the casing is a chamber R into which the gases as they rise are adapted to pass, thence through the openings R yin the partitionslt and intoi"` the compartinentl S having an exit opening in its top T. suitable opening T is formed in the side wall of the compartment l2.. and is regulated by a door 'll"-.

ln operation, the sulfur to be melted is placed within theI compartment B and heat conducted through the .pipes E. Drysulfur is placed upon the various shelves and ignited in starting 'the lire after which, as

the sulfur melts in the compartment B, it will pass through the partition F and through the. opening G which is controlled by the valve H. By the provision of said doors, the draft of the apparat-us may be regulated as may be desired. The sulfur fumes will take the course indicated by dotted arrows and pass through the chamber R, thence through. the openings into R and into the compartment S and malte exit in the top of the casing as will be readily understood. l

What I claim as new and desire to secure' by Letters Patent is:

A sulfur burner comprising a casing hav ing in the lower portion thereof a combustion chamber provided with alternately ar# ranged shelves extending nearly the length thereof, the upper portion of the casing havheating coil containing,n compartment in 110 the upper portion of the casing and pro- In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my vided with a filling opening', a compartment signature in the presence of two Witnesses. .having communication through a perforated' Wall thereof with the coil containing GEORGE W'-FORTIER' 5oo1npartment7 and having in its bottom a VVitneSSes:

'Valve regulated opening communicating WM. J. MOKAY,

with the combustion chamber. WM. HAYNES. 

